GRE Word List
SUSTENANCE
means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
The meaning of the word sustenance is means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| deleterious | harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way |